RegardingID Archive | UPEK names new chairman

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

UPEK, a developer of professional and consumer biometric fingerprint solutions, has named Alan Baratz as their new chairman of the board. Baratz’s professional experience that led him to this role include executive positions at Sun Microsystems, IBM, Versata, Zaplet, NeoPath Networks and Cisco.

While at Sun, Baratz managed the Java platform from its early development stages to its common usage today. UPEK is excited at the possibilities someone with Baratz’s background in technology can bring to their company and assist them in this time of heavy growth in the biometric market.

KSI announces new line of biometric keyboards

Key Source International (KSI) has announced the release of a new line of computer keyboards that offer a number of security input options.

Among the various embedded options for securely authenticating one’s identity in the keyboard, called the KSI-1700, are biometrics, RFID, HID and contactless smart cards as well as technology called SonarLocID, which automatically locks a user’s workstation when they walk away.

Lumidigm names new CEO

The board of directors for Lumidigm announced the appointment of Mark Shermetaro, a member of the board, to chief executive officer of the company with current CEO and chairman Bob Harbour moving to the position of executive chairman of the board of directors.

Malaysia to forego biometrics for upcoming election

The Malaysian Election Commission has decided to forego the use of the biometric voter verification system for the country’s upcoming elections, according to an article form The Star.

Student information at Orlando college posted online

Personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students was inadvertently posted online by Valencia College in Orlando. The school has apologized for the mistake.

The information included the students’ names, addresses, dates of birth and student ID numbers but not their Social Security numbers or financial information.

Entrust Discovery enhances digital certificate management

Entrust Inc. has made enhancements to its Entrust Discovery digital certificate product by expanding search capabilities for digital certificates residing within Microsoft’s Cryptographic APIs and adding more than 25 basic or custom policy field alerts to ease certificate management.

University of Maryland student information stored on publicly accessible computer

A state audit found that personal and financial information for students considering attending the University of Maryland were stored on publicly accessible servers that could make students easy prey to ID thieves.

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UPEK names new chairman